Dr. Jane Simonson from Augustana to Present at the Davenport Public Library

The Davenport Public Library will welcome Dr. Jane Simonson from Augustana College Join us for this program on local women’s history presented by Dr. Jane Simonsen of Augustana College. This program will explore the poems of Mary Brackett Durham, an upper-class white woman who lived in Rock Island in the late 19th century.  Her poems, many of them based on the recollections of early settler Susan Lewis, romanticize race relations in the region and consign Native Americans to a ghostly past. At the same time, they offer glimpses of a more complex set of economic and political relationships... Read More